Rich Franklin Interview

I came across this interview at asylum.com

No huge revelations here. Rich does admit to being beat by a High School student and about his time as a teacher, you can read the whole thing by clicking on the link above. As a side note, this was linked off of the main AOL page. Just a sign of good things to come. MMA is slowly creeping into the mainstream.

Did you ever train with the school wrestling team? One of the seniors at the high school, he and I wrestled. And we wrestled his style of wrestling, which was free-style wrestling and we wrestled my style of wrestling and I remember when we wrestled my way I ended up triangling him and when we wrestled his way he ended up pinning me. And that was a big deal for the students.

Do any of your former students show up at your matches? I see students from time to time. I have about a half a dozen of them that keep in contact with me. When I was teaching, I was fighting professionally. Not in the UFC, but I was fighting professionally and I would have students that would show up for the fights. The parents didn't care, they were pretty OK with everything and that's kind of rare because when you're in a suburban school district you're dealing with a lot of conservative parents. But I actually had some parents that came to my matches.